Gary Houston
Born: 1948-12-17 in California, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Gary Houston (born December 17, 1948, in California) is an American stage, film, and television actor, playwright, and theatre director whose career has spanned over 60 years. He is best known for his work in Chicago's theater scene, where he has been active since 1969. A former production coordinator and writer at the Chicago Sun-Times, Houston created the original role of Roger (the "Mooning King of Rydell High") in the world premiere of Grease at the Kingston Mines Theatre Company in Chicago, where his wife Hedda Lubin (married December 30, 2004) originated the role of Frenchie. As a director, he won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Overall Technical Design for the 1977 Chicago premiere of Peter Handke's Kaspar at Goodman Theatre, and directed the first production to open at Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Wallace Shawn's Our Late Night, 1977), with a cast that included John Malkovich, Terry Kinney, Laurie Metcalf, and Joan Allen. His film and television credits include The Blues Brothers (1980), Major League (1989), A League of Their Own (1992), Hoffa (1992), Fargo (1996), Proof (2005), The Astronaut Farmer (2007), Eagle Eye (2008), Watchmen (2009), Game Day (2018), Princess Cyd (2017), and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023). On television he has appeared in Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago Justice, Fargo (TV), Shameless, Prison Break, Shining Girls, and Leverage. He also taught Acting for Film at Columbia College Chicago, taking over the class from his friend Joe Mantegna, and is a published playwright and short fiction writer with work in the Chicago Quarterly Review.
Filmography
2023
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. as Paul Hutchins
- A Fargo Christmas Story as Uncle Charlie
2022
- Shining Girls as Meatpacking Brother
2019
- Game Day as Doctor
2018
- Slice as Lennox
2017
- Princess Cyd as Peter Van Houston
2015
- Chicago Med as Ron Holt
- Consumed as Ted
2014
- Fargo as Major Hamar
- No God, No Master as Frederic C. Howe
2011
- The Dilemma as Camera Clerk
2009
- Watchmen as John McLaughlin
2008
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles as Mr. Ferguson
- Eagle Eye as Forensics Agents
- The Express as Marty Harrigan
2007
- The Astronaut Farmer as Dr. Livingston
2005
- Proof as Professor Barrow
2003
- Uncle Nino as Jerry
2002
- No Tomorrow as Mr. Christman
1997
- Night of the Lawyers as Mr. X
1996
- Early Edition as Gregor / Mystery Man
- Fargo as Irate Customer
1994
- Two Fathers: Justice for the Innocent as Leonard Kapskin
- The Childhood Friend as Ross
1992
- A League of Their Own as Ray Foster (uncredited)
- Hoffa as Government Agent in Bar
1990
- Robot Jox as Sportcaster
1989
- Major League as Ross Farmer
1986
- Crime Story as Deputy #2
- Raw Deal as Patrovita Thug
1983
- Class as Salesman
1981
- The Children Nobody Wanted as Sadistic Orderly
1980
- The Blues Brothers as Nazi
- My Bodyguard as Drunk in the Park (uncredited)
1978
- A Wedding as Caterer (uncredited)
1975
- The Lion Roars Again as Self (uncredited)